The Delta State Police in South-south Nigeria have arrested “over a hundred gay suspects in a hotel carrying out a gay wedding ceremony.” according to a tweet from the official police Twitter account on Tuesday morning.
The police further disclosed that the suspects would be paraded shortly.
“Delta State Command have Arrested over hundred gay suspects in a hotel carrying out a gay wedding ceremony. We will be going Live Shortly on Facebook to parade the said Suspects,” the tweet reads.
Good Evening Nigeria reports that homosexual relationships are deemed illegal in Nigeria, where a law enacted in January 2014 during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan mandates a 14-year prison sentence for individuals found guilty of engaging in same-sex activities.
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This isn’t the first instance of the Nigerian government acting on this anti-gay law. In December 2019, 47 men who were arrested by the police in a Lagos hotel the previous year, under suspicion of publicly displaying affection for members of the same sex, were arraigned in court.
All 47 men pleaded not guilty and were granted bail. Eventually, a federal judge dismissed the charges against them due to a “lack of diligent prosecution” by the police.
